Arduino has today announced the availability of the latest Arduino IDE in the form of version 1.6.6 which has now been released and is available to download.

Some of the first steps toward working with Arduino is understanding how to write code for it. The good news is that it's made with beginners in mind.

The basic functions of the Arduino IDE – pinMode, digitalRead, digitalWrite, and analogRead – are available. Most of the WiFi functions work just like the WiFi shield library.

Here are the top 10 Arduino library authors as of March 11th, 2019 9:00 PM EDT. adafruit: Adafruit Industries 168 sparkfun: SparkFun Electronics 88 seeed-studio: Seeed Studio 58 arduino-libraries ...

The new Arduino IDE 1.6.2 features a one click install of boards and libraries and now includes two new menu items in the form of “Sketch > Include Library ...